http://www.californear.com/pics/packets.jpg
Sniffer showed now unusual traffic, hardware problem perhaps?

:o

NAI Virus Scan is known to cause this behaviour ;) ;)

Did cross my mind.

Does it actually feel slow to use the network ?

Nope. All seems fine and sniffer sees no unusual amounts of traffic. Looks like the packets are only reported on the machine and never leave it. That many packets even in 9 hours must be next to impossible.

How do you even say that number?

1 trillion,473 billion,175 million,10 thousand,eight hundred and three?

Or should i have taken math a-level ?

It's got to be a bug in the driver.....even if it was sending that much data to the loopback you machine would crawl.

What NIC are you using ??


Jeff

off topic i know but thats a nice silvery desktop effect, which theme/scheme is that?
getting bored of blue and not changed os for a little while :)

In the appearance tab from desktop properties choose silver. Rather nice.

Not sure about the card. Have disabled the built in one - IBM Insmellystation M series. Device manager reports Intel(R)PRO/100+ Management Adapter.

Found one person using google with the same symptoms, otherwise complete blank.

top man jack, just the change i needed till a whole new os comes along in five mins time :)